[gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

[gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

[Jessica Rasku]

I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync.  Using
pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error:

jrasku@gypsy ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done;  pilot-xfer\ -l
   No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given.
   Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'

   Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
   Please use --help for more information

I'm not sure where to go from here.  I've read several howtos, and have
not gotten anywhere beyond this.  Most things with gentoo have `just
worked' though I'm not sure why this is posing a problem.  Any help
would be apreciated.  Thank you for your time.

							Jessica
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Re: [gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

[Heinz Sporn]

Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 02:34 -0800 schrieb Jessica Rasku:
> I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync.  Using
> pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error:
> 
> jrasku@gypsy ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done;  pilot-xfer\ -l
>    No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given.
>    Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'
> 
>    Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
>    Please use --help for more information
> 

Funny coincidence - had the same problem today.

My Palm is a Tungsten E without a craddle - just an USB cable. To be
able to use that I need a couple of things:

1. Kernel
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m

2. Loading modules in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 with

visor vendor=0x0830 product=0x0060

That'll both load visor and usbserial.

3. UDEV
In /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules:
KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME="tts/USB%n", GROUP="usb", MODE="0666"
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB[13579]",
SYMLINK="pilot", MODE="0666", GROUP="usb"

In /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions
ttyUSB*:root:usb:0666
tts/[0-9]*:root:usb:0666
tts/USB[0-9]*:root:usb:0666
pilot:root:usb:0666

4. Hotplug should have been emerged and running

5. Testing

Now add your user(s) to the group usb, press Hotsync on your Palm device
and check if /dev/tts/USB0 and /dev/tts/USB1 have been created by UDEV
and a symlink /dev/pilot exists.

If that's true run pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot --list while your Palm still
is trying to hotsync. pilot-xfer should be able to connect now.

If you're using Gnome I recommend using the gnome-pilot-applet. Works
like a charm with Evolution.


> I'm not sure where to go from here.  I've read several howtos, and have
> not gotten anywhere beyond this.  Most things with gentoo have `just
> worked' though I'm not sure why this is posing a problem.  Any help
> would be apreciated.  Thank you for your time.
> 
> 							Jessica

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Re: [gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

[Jessica Rasku]

Heinz Sporn wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 02:34 -0800 schrieb Jessica Rasku:
> 
>>I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync.  Using
>>pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error:
>>
>>jrasku@gypsy ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done;  pilot-xfer\ -l
>>   No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given.
>>   Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'
>>
>>   Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
>>   Please use --help for more information
>>
> 
> 
> Funny coincidence - had the same problem today.
> 
> My Palm is a Tungsten E without a craddle - just an USB cable. To be
> able to use that I need a couple of things:
> 
> 1. Kernel
> CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
> CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y
> CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m
> 
> 2. Loading modules in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 with
> 
> visor vendor=0x0830 product=0x0060
> 
> That'll both load visor and usbserial.
> 
> 3. UDEV
> In /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules:
> KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME="tts/USB%n", GROUP="usb", MODE="0666"
> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB[13579]",
> SYMLINK="pilot", MODE="0666", GROUP="usb"
> 
> In /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions
> ttyUSB*:root:usb:0666
> tts/[0-9]*:root:usb:0666
> tts/USB[0-9]*:root:usb:0666
> pilot:root:usb:0666> 

Thank you, this worked for me.  Just re-wrote the udev rules and
permissions got it working.  Not quite sure what wasn't quite right, but
I got it working.  Thank you very much.

						Jessica
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